Word: pats
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...these occasions introduces them to Pat, a beautiful girl who is also a good sport. All three are much taken with her, but Robert is completely bowled over...
...embarks on a shy, secretive courtship, and much to his surprise makes headway fast. He tries to keep his affair a secret from his friends, but long before Pat comes to live with him they know all about it. Pat has a secret of her own-tuberculosis. She and Robert go off for a honeymoon vacation by the sea; one day she has a bad hemorrhage. Robert telephones his pals; they round up a doctor, get him there in a hair-raising ride. That time Pat pulls through, but her days are numbered. When winter comes...
...garage. Robert goes back to his old job of playing the piano in a prostitutes' bar. One day Gottfried is shot down on the street by a Nazi. Otto and Robert comb the city for the murderer, but someone else gets him first. An alarming telegram comes from Pat and Otto motors Robert to the sanatorium. Pat is dying, but it is a costly place to die in, and her money is almost gone. Otto goes back to Berlin, sells his beloved Karl, wires Robert the money. A little while later Pat dies in Robert's arms...
Heroes of Editor White's editorial page are his fellow-Emporians. They have their foibles but none worth getting really sore about. They need a scolding now & then, but what they need oftenest is a pat on the back, maybe some kidding. In his warm but unmaudlin obituaries, Editor White shows the full measure of their place in his half-Irish heart. Even outside Emporia, where all the worst sinners live, he can always find some good word to say for the dead. Only once in 42 years has a man died in the U. S. about whom...
Terms. There was reason for Mr. Chrysler's smile. As the Governor read it became evident that the motormaker had stood pat and won on his original declaration that he would not grant the United Automobile Workers exclusive bargaining rights for all Chrysler workers. "The corporation agrees to bargain with the union as the collective bargaining agency for such of its employees as are members of the union." There was no qualification, as that in the General Motors agreement, that the company would not bargain with any other group for six months. Chrysler did promise not to deny...